[1] In July 1992, on her way to Halabja in support of the Kurds, she was involved in a car bomb in Iraqi Kurdistan; though she survived, as did minister Bernard Kouchner, seven people in her convoy were killed, and seventeen others were wounded.

[5][6] In 1996, Mitterrand was awarded the North–South Prize "for her position in favour of the human rights and, symbolically, to Algerian women, for their daily fight for freedom.

[3] During Fidel Castro's 1995 visit to France, she also helped secure the release of imprisoned Cuban dissident Yndamiro Restano Díaz, who was reportedly freed at her request.

[citation needed] She was very critical of Turkey, opposing its accession to the European Union and supportive of the Kurdistan independence movement.

Her France-Libertés Foundation provided financial support to local human rights initiatives abroad, and also financed access to medicine and education in poor countries.

[1] She supported a "no" vote in the 2005 French referendum on the European Constitution: "I denounce the power of the economy over people, a system that turns individuals into elements in an economic equation, does not respect the poor and excludes everyone that does not live up to the principle of profitability".